Hey Fifty7, if those tanks are going to be demolished for a new mall, that's a great opportunity to do a time phased video. With Litchi, setup a flight path that you fly over and over, identical flights through the next year as the mall is being built. After the mall is done, edit short sequential clips from each flights into single video that shows BEFORE footage in the beginning of the video, and as you fly around, the end of the video shows AFTER footage, showing the finished mall. Time phased videos are intriguing. Yes, it's a lot of work, but it will be epic in the end. Here's an example below of a "day to night" time phased video using Litchi. In your case it would be month to month time phasing. I wish I lived in the East so I could do a "Season to Season" time phased video with tree color, complete with snow.
Pretty cool. I've never tried Litchi and really never wanted to. I like flying myself but for something like that I may have to try it. As for the tanks, nobody knows what's going on right now. They've been talking about it for years. Recently they built up the dirt around the tanks and took a lot of dirt or from other areas of the site but they've stopped again and haven't been there for months now so who knows.
I needed advice calibrating near water and someone shared the post below with me. You may find it helpful:
http://www.phantompilots.com/threads/compass-calibration-a-complete-primer.32829
Thanks. Will take a look.
57, I've flown over them a few times. Never a problem. I launched from the Lowes parking lot early on a Sunday morning and flew over the tanks, out to the landfill and back along the Kill Van Kull.
I drive by there every day. I was thinking about going down the road to the golf range but Lowe's is a good idea. This was from Industrial Loop. Had to go over the prison which would explain my warning about the area I was flying in. [emoji16]
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